I must say only a thing: newer Windows sucks. When I used 3.11 (when I had a 386), Windows NEVER crashed, gave me an error or something of that kind... Is more: a time I accidentally deleted the system files and it still works...
Newer Windows crashes constantly, however. Note that the crashes started to appear in WinNT, oh, when the Start Menu appeared. It's a bug that never was corrected. And when a program crashes, the dump is exactly the same ALWAYS.
I heard that Windows Longhorn (sorry, Vista now) will be 3D (in its begins). If this is true, then they'll get rid the Start menu, and probably the bug... but surely replacing it by other bug. :(